Sweet potatoes — Yield in Bahamas
Bahamas: Sweet potatoes — Yield was 3,370 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Bahamas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Bahamas recorded 3,370 kg/ha for sweet potatoes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.3% on the previous year and down 3.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — yield in Bahamas peaked at 4,091 kg/ha in 1985 and was at its lowest, 2,222 kg/ha, in 1961.
Bahamas ranks 95th of 112 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sweet potatoes — Yield in Bahamas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,222 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,462 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1963 | 2,647 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1964 | 2,857 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1965 | 3,014 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1966 | 3,067 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1967 | 3,092 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1968 | 3,158 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1969 | 3,182 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1970 | 3,247 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1971 | 3,269 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1972 | 3,333 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1973 | 3,397 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1974 | 3,418 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1975 | 3,500 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1976 | 3,625 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1977 | 3,750 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1978 | 3,827 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1979 | 3,951 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1980 | 4,024 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1981 | 3,929 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1982 | 4,000 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1983 | 4,070 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1984 | 4,070 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 4,091 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1986 | 4,091 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 3,954 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1988 | 3,765 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1989 | 3,977 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1990 | 3,812 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1991 | 3,142 kg/ha | -17.6% |
| 1992 | 3,162 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1993 | 3,159 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1994 | 3,126 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1995 | 3,071 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1996 | 3,132 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1997 | 3,080 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1998 | 3,172 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1999 | 3,809 kg/ha | +20.1% |
| 2000 | 3,530 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 2001 | 3,056 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 2002 | 3,479 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 2003 | 3,400 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2004 | 3,385 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 3,433 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2006 | 3,452 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2007 | 3,435 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 3,444 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 3,452 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 3,461 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 3,469 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 3,478 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 3,486 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 3,501 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 3,507 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 3,498 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 3,335 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2018 | 3,446 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2019 | 3,281 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2020 | 3,406 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2021 | 3,377 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2022 | 3,355 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2023 | 3,379 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2024 | 3,370 kg/ha | -0.3% |
Bahamas compared with similar countries
- Bahamas's 3,370 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 10,301 kg/ha, 33% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Bahamas's 3,370 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 9,065 kg/ha, 37% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,856 kg/ha | 2,222 kg/ha | 3,182 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,532 kg/ha | 3,247 kg/ha | 3,951 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,997 kg/ha | 3,765 kg/ha | 4,091 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,267 kg/ha | 3,071 kg/ha | 3,812 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,407 kg/ha | 3,056 kg/ha | 3,530 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,446 kg/ha | 3,281 kg/ha | 3,507 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,378 kg/ha | 3,355 kg/ha | 3,406 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Bahamas
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 17.44 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0051 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 203.1 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4043 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1867 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.5% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — yield in Bahamas?
- Sweet potatoes — yield in Bahamas was 3,370 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Bahamas?
- The highest recorded value was 4,091 kg/ha in 1985.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — yield recorded in Bahamas?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,222 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Bahamas rank for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Bahamas ranks 95th out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — yield rising or falling in Bahamas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bahamas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.